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SOTENI Inc

SOTENI Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,519 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($823,766). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$284k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$93k
10/18 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What SOTENI Inc does

Mission

To reduce the Incidence of HIV/AIDS in Rural Kenya and Eswatini and improve the lives of those infected by HIV/AIDS.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Soteni Kenya Soteni Inc. provides resources to build the capacity of both the staff of Soteni Kenya and the staff and local leaders of the three Soteni villages of hope. As a major indicator of such activity building, the Soteni staff on the ground in Kenya either managed or obtained project grants and contributions from a variety of funders during this period. for people living with HIV/AIDS.

    $170,830 spentof which $15,000 as grants$237,282 earned by the program
    68% of program spending
  2. SOTENI Inc. also strengthened support for the dispensary at SVH-Mbakalo, which provides essential medical services including a laboratory, child wellness services, deliveries of newborns, family planning services and HIV testing, to an underserved area near a rural slum in Western Province.

    $1,922 earned by the program
  3. Clear Water Project - SOTENI, Inc continued the Soteni-Childrens safe drinking water project, which enables in-home purification of drinking water for about 2,100 people living with HIV/AIDS. Funded by one of our partners, the Proctor and Gamble Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation in the 2020- 2021 fiscal year.

    $55,646 spent
    22% of program spending
  4. Program Service Expenses 1,500, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 International Foundation- In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, SOTENI, Inc. received a grant from the International Foundation to further SOTENI, Incs mission of working to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in rural Kenya and to improve the lives of such individuals. SOTENI, Inc. also paid for a supscription to a data collection support tool, CommCare. Program Service Expenses 21,469, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 29,322 SOTENI SWAZI SHEROES Project - In 2020, SOTENI extended its outreach to Eswatini Formerly Swaziland to launch a new program Swazi SHEROES - a program providing holistic economic empowerment programing and services forwomen and girls who are vunerable to or living with HIV/AIDS in Esatini.

    $22,969 spent$29,322 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $249,445.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 100 ($82k)2018 Revenue 204 ($334k) Expenses 122 ($271k) Net assets 177 ($145k)2019 Revenue 98 ($160k) Expenses 124 ($276k) Net assets 35 ($29k)2020 Revenue 182 ($298k) Expenses 144 ($320k) Net assets 9 ($7k)2021 Revenue 196 ($321k) Expenses 119 ($264k) Net assets 78 ($64k)2022 Revenue 297 ($486k) Expenses 133 ($297k) Net assets 309 ($253k)2023 Revenue 92 ($151k) Expenses 121 ($270k) Net assets 164 ($134k)2024 Revenue 200 ($327k) Expenses 141 ($313k) Net assets 180 ($148k)2025 Revenue 173 ($284k) Expenses 152 ($338k) Net assets 114 ($93k)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (152)Net assets (114)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $156k to $305k (+95%).

$84k
$147k
$80k
$58k
$156k
$305k
$188k
$201k
$148k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2020
2021
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of SOTENI Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$59k
’17
$63k
’18
−$116k
’19
−$22k
’20
$57k
’21
$189k
’22
−$119k
’23
$14k
’24
−$54k
’25
4.9
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reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Victoria Wulsin MD DPH

Board Chair/Founder

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed15131414109139
Joined·+3+2+3+4+2+7+4
No longer listed·5138338
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $205k → $192k.

9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SOTENI Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SOTENI Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOTENI Inc.

77%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 54% · 2019 80% · 2020 83% · 2021 88% · 2022 91% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of SOTENI Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of SOTENI Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $115k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states.

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OH
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $958k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOTENI Inc's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOTENI Inc?
SOTENI Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,519 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($823,766). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOTENI Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,073,519 in grants to SOTENI Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOTENI Inc?
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $823,766 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOTENI Inc find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing